I own a couple of NeXT computers running Mathematica and wonder about a
couple of things that might make the set-up a little more convenient.
1) For some rather complicated reasons it is often convenietn for me to
be sitting at one NeXT and running mathematica in a shell window on the
other. No real problem, but when I want to make a plot there seems to be
no simple way to "display" it back on the first machine, as there is on an
X-windows machine which just reads the DISPLAY environmental variable and
pipes the graphic accordingly. Instead I have to save the plot to a file,
psfix it, and ftp it back to the first machine. Q: Is there some better
way to handle this? Perhaps something I can put in my init.m or some
such.
2) I have seen some versions of Mma on Unix-X boxes where the command
line interface has a utility called "fep" (for "front end processor")
which gives tcshell like abilities to recall and edit prior commands. I
have not been able to discover where this software comes from, who created
it, if the source is available, etc. I would like to have it installed on
my NeXT and wonder if anyone out there is familiar with it and can provide
pointers.
Thanks in advance for your help --- tom
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Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist
Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779
Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home)
Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm at ameslab.gov
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